§ Lord APSLEYasked the Minister of Agriculture whether he can state the original cause of infection which resulted in the series of foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks in the Malmesbury district of Wiltshire in January and February?
§ Mr. ELLIOTExhaustive inquiries were made as to the source of infection of the outbreaks to which my Noble Friend refers, but I regret to say that no evidence has been obtained as to the origin of the initial outbreaks at each centre.